Location Change: Video Round Table Program

The ALA Video Round Table and the ACRL Media Resources Discussion Group are pleased to announce a joint program:
Sunday, June 29th, 1:30pm-3:30pm

New location: Anaheim Marriott, Salon A-D

Program title: Ding Dong the V(HS)itch is Dead ... or is it?
Librarians working with media are preparing for the looming obsolescence of VHS and a switch to digital television and high definition formats. Many libraries house sizable VHS collections, even as they collect new titles on DVD and prepare for high def and digital delivery. Librarians are grappling with difficult format transition questions, and many VHS titles may be impossible to re-acquire as DVDs. What preservation and access reformatting will U.S. copyright law allow? As library users upgrade their personal equipment to prepare for the February 17, 2009 switch to all digital over-the-air television transmission (DTV), what will be the impact on library services and collections?

Speakers will discuss the work of the Section 108 Study Group (final report here: <http://www.section108.gov/>), strategies for evaluating existing collections, briefly discuss video and moving image preservation and reformatting and the transition to digital formats, and provide an overview of the DTV transition and library voucher programs.

Speakers:

James G. Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian, Columbia University and a member of the Section 108 Study Group

Howard Besser, Professor of Cinema Studies and Director of New York University's Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program (MIAP)